colligate

[ kol-i-geyt ]

verb (used with object)

, col·li·gat·ed, col·li·gat·ing.

1. to bind or fasten together.
2. Logic. to link (facts) together by a general description or by a hypothesis that applies to them all.

colligate

/ ˈkɒlɪˌɡeɪt /

verb

1. to connect or link together; tie; join
2. to relate (isolated facts, observations, etc) by a general hypothesis

Derived Forms

• ˌcolliˈgation, noun

Other Words From

• colli·gation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of colligate¹

1425–75 for obsolete adj. sense “bound together”; 1535–45 colligate fordef 1; < Latin colligātus (past participle of colligāre ), equivalent to col- col- ¹ + ligā- (stem of ligāre to bind) + -tus past participle ending

Word History and Origins

Origin of colligate¹

C16: from Latin colligāre to fasten together, from com- together + ligāre to bind

Example Sentences

That explanation, indeed, suffers from the complexity and apparent absurdity inevitable in dealing with phenomena which greatly transcend known laws; but on the other hand it does in its way colligate Canon Bourne's case with a good many others of odd and varying types.

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Colligate, kol′i-gāt, v.t. to bind together.

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We can observe and colligate the facts of emotion and volition, as we can observe the position of the stars and the laws of heat.

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In other cases, no doubt, instead of collecting the conception from the very phenomena which we are attempting to colligate, we select it from among those which have been previously collected by abstraction from other facts.

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The conceptions, then, which we employ for the colligation and methodization of facts, do not develop themselves from within, but are impressed upon the mind from without; they are never obtained otherwise than by way of comparison and abstraction, and, in the most important and the most numerous cases, are evolved by abstraction from the very phenomena which it is their office to colligate.

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Related Words

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